Vocab Test!!
[Blank] behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
Addiction
A group of people who provide encouragement to help someone achieve something
Support System
What is the main ingredient in household dust?
A.) Soil B.) Clothing Participles C.) Dead Skin D.) Pollen
C.) Dead skin
[Blank] is a mental illness that involves excessive, persistent, and unrealistic fear or worry that can interfere with daily life
anxiety
To ignore, downplay, or distort the reality of your substance use
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
Detox
The act of letting go of resistance and submitting to an entity and their authority or ideas
Surrender
What is the loudest animal?
A.) Lion B.) Howler Monkey C.) Cicada D.) Whale
D.) Whale
[Blank] is a serious mental health condition that involves a persistent low mood and loss of interest in activities
Depression
Any actions a person takes to escape from difficult thoughts and feelings
Avoidance
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
Trigger
Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
Insanity
Which direction does the sun rise from?
East
[Blank] disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts. engages in repetitive behaviors or both
OCD
Unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don't like about yourself and attributing them to someone else
Projection
A condition that occurs when the body has a reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use
Tolerance
The process of avoiding or not using an addictive substance
abstinence
What condiment was once sold as medicine?
A.) Mustard B.) Siracha C.) Ketchup D.) Mayo
What is the mental illness that is related to manic and depressive episodes?
Bipolar Disorder
[Blank] form of retreat, enabling a person to psychologically go back in time to a period when the person felt safer. When we are troubled or frightened, our behaviors often become more childish or primitive.
Regression
A person who denies the facts represented right in front of them to protect or hold onto an addict (which causes more problems and harm)
Enabler
A very strong feeling of wanting to do something repeatedly that is difficult to control
Compulsion
What is the only planet to spin clockwise?
A.) Saturn B.) Venus C.) Jupiter D.) Earth
b.) Venus
The condition of suffering from a mental illness and comorbid substance use disorder
Co-Occurring Disorder
When a person finds a situation difficult to accept, they will make up a logical reason why it has happened.
Rationalization